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1 An Introduction to Anglican Theology: Theology and the Book of Common Prayer Instructor: Ephraim Radner, [email protected] Office Hours: by appointment, Mon-Wed WYT2505HS Fall, 2019 This is a survey course in Anglican theology that will involve extensive reading and regular analysis and writing. Using the lens of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) as a way of approaching the sweep of Anglican theological thinking, this course will survey some developmental sweep of Anglican (mostly English) theological reflection based on the BCP, and, more importantly, focus in on particular parts of the BCP itself for theological analysis. Beginning with Wycliffe and Tyndale, the course will move through a number of writers into the early 21stth century. Course Requirements: class participation: weekly reading assignments; weekly written responses to questions on the readings; three 3-4-page essays; a 3-page reflection paper on engaging the Daily Office; a final content quiz on Chapman’s Very Short Introduction. Engagement with the Daily Office can be done in at least two ways: participation in Wycliffe’s Chapel service (at last 1x per weekday) and/or personal listening online to the Morning and/or Evening Prayer at https://cradleofprayer.org/this-weeks-prayers/ The Reflection paper will be due at the time of the final content exam. You will also be required, by the college, to engage the online course evaluation that will be sent to you via email towards the end of the course. Grading breakdown: 20% weekly writing assignments 45% writing assignments (15% each) 10% final content quiz 25% participation No extensions will be offered without prior permission from the instructor and only for exceptional special circumstances. All assignments that are late without permission will have their grade reduced automatically by 1% per day late. 2 Course Outcomes: COURSE OUTCOMES COURSE ELEMENT PROGRAM OUTCOMES By the end of the course, This outcome will be This course outcome students will be able to demonstrated through these corresponds to these aspects course elements of Wycliffe’s statement of outcomes • Identify the shape and Weekly writing assignments M.Div/MTS: 1.2, 3; 2:2.1, 4 theological context of on the readings, discussion, the BCP, both in its course papers 16th and contemporary forms • Analyze major ways Weekly assignments, papers M.Div/MTS: 1.4 the BCP has been 1 and 2 integrated into developing Anglican theological traditions • Describe the basics of Weekly assignments, course MDiv: 1.4,5; 2.2 (MTS: 2.3) the BCP’s historical papers setting(s) and global revisions • Assess the Discussions, paper 3 M.Div/MTS: 1.6 theoretical/theological and historical basis for the BCP’s ongoing revision Books for Purchase (available at UoT Bookstore at the Law School basement): Book of Common Prayer (Anglican Church of Canada) required Stephen Spencer, Anglicanism: SCM Study Guide (SCM: 2010) required Mark Chapman, Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University: 2006) – required Excellent website with links to classic resources on the BCP, including historical sources used below: 3 http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/history.htm Bibliography, in order of reading (weblinks to most of these are found in the Schedule below); links will also be provided on the Quercus course site. Mark Chapman, Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2006) William Tyndale, “A Pathway Into Scripture”, in The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith, ed. Thomas Russell, vol. I. Martin Luther, The Prefaces to the Early Editions of Martin Luther’s Bible, ed. T. A Readwin (London: Harchard & Co, 1863) Thomas Cranmer: “Preface to the Great Bible”, in Miscellaneous Writings and Letters of Thomas Cranmer (Cambridge: Parker Society/Cambridge U. Press, 1846); Homilies (select) at http://www.anglicanlibrary.org/ P.T. Boultbee An Introduction to the Theology of the Church of England in An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871) Edgar Gibson , The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (London: Methuen & Co., 1898) Admonition to the Parliament (T. Cartwright?) in W. H. Frere and C. E. Douglas, Puritan Manifestoes: A Study of the Origin of the Puritan Revolt (London: SPCK, 1907) John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity, in The Works of John Locke, vol. 6 (London: Rivington’s et al, 1824) John Henry Newman, Apologia pro sua vita [1865] at www.newmanreader.org Leonard Prestige, Anglo-Catholics: What They Believe (London: Catholic Literature Association of the Anglo-Catholic Congress, 1927) Herbert Walter Stowe, Anglo-Catholicism: What It Is Not and What It Is (London Church Literature Association, 1932). Richard Hooker, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, in The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker, vol.1 (Oxford: Thomas Tegg, 1839) Massey Shepherd, “The Eucharistic Lectionary”, The Anglican Theological Review, 32:1 (Jan. 1950) Ephraim Radner, “Juxapositional Reading and the Force of the Lectionary”, from Radner, Time and the Word (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, forthcoming 2016) “History of Anglican Formation and Discipleship” (for the Anglican Communion’s “Towards Intentional Discipleship” program Athanasius, “Letter to Marcellinus”, The Life Of Antony And The Letter To Marcellinus, translated by Robert C. Gregg (New York: Paulist Press), pp. 101-129; 1980. Thomas Comber A Companion to the Temple, or A Help to Devotion in the Daily-use of the Common Prayer, Part I (London: Henry Brome, 1676) Diane Thompson “The Attitude of the Church of England to World War I” unpubl. thesis, McGill U., 1968) Bernard Reynolds, Handbook to the Book of Common Prayer (London: Rivington’s, 1903) James Devereux, S. J. ., “Reformed Doctrine in the Collects of The First Book of Common Prayer” Harvard Theological Review 58:1, 1965 4 Donald Gray “The Anglican Collect”, in Bridget Nichols, ed., The Collect in the Churches of the Reformation (London: SCM, 2010), pp. 50-66 Katherine Sonderegger, “the Doctrine of Justification and the Cure of Souls”, in Wayne C. Stumme, The Gospel of Justification in Christ: Where Does The Church Stand Today? (Gradn Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006), pp. 167-81. Maurice Elliott, “Cranmer’s Views on the Episcopate: Bishops, Priests, and Deacons”, Churchman 109:4 (1995) Ephraim Radner, “Bad Bishops: A Key to Anglican Ecclesiology”, Anglican Theological Review, 82:2 (2000) Jonathan Mitchican, “Can There Be a Church Without a Bishop?”, at conciliaranglican.com Charles Simeon, The Excellency of the Liturgy, Discourse IV [1812/13] (Columbus, OH: Isaac Whiting, 1831), pp. 66-87: Alexander Faludy , “Fashioning on Aaron’s Breastplate: Formation, Grace and the Ministry in Post-Reformation England”, Journal of Adult Theological Education 4:1 (April, 2007), Apostolicae Curae (papal encyclical rejecting Anglican orders, 1896) Saepius officio (Anglican response to Apostolicae curae, 1897) John Witte, From Sacrament to Contract (Westminster/John Knox, 1997) Anthony Sparrow , Rationale upon the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England [1655] (Oxford: John Henry Parker: 1840) “This Holy Estate”, report of the Marriage Canon Commission of the Anglican Church of Canada, 2015. John Bauerschmidt et al, “Marriage in Creation and Covenant: A Response to the Task Force on the Study of Marriage”, The Anglican Theological Review, “Conversations” (2015) Ian Green, ‘For Children in Yeeres and Children in Understanding‘: The Emergence of the English Catechism under Elizabeth and the Early Stuarts”, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 37:3 (July 1986), pp 397 - 425 The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion, edited by J. Barney Hawkins IV, Ian S. Markham, Leslie Nunez Steffensen, and Justyn Terry (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, 2013) – chapters by Titus Presler (“The History of Mission in the Anglican Communion”), Grant Lemarquand (“Globalization of the Anglican Communion”), Timothy Dakin (“Missionary Work in the Anglican Communion”) Schedule (Except for Week 1, all readings and assignments are due on the date listed) Week 1 – Introduction Begin reading of Spencer’s and Chapman’s Anglicanism – you should have this completed and carefully considered by Week 5 Week 2 – Tyndale and early Protestant moral reading Reading: Online: William Tyndale, A Pathway Into Scripture (read in conjunction with Luther’s Preface to the New Testament), Prologue to Jonas; recommended, “To the Reader” in The Obedience of a Christian Man 5 Pathway: https://books.google.ca/books?id=BqMMAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=willia m+tyndale+works&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwx67JzfnJAhXBHD4KHc- pBpcQ6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&q=william%20tyndale%20works&f=false p. 487 Luther’a Preface: https://books.google.ca/books?id=bYkEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=luther+preface+ to+the+new+testament&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlyPiM2_nJAhUG9h4KHWwHDdgQ6A EIKTAB#v=onepage&q=luther%20preface%20to%20the%20new%20testament&f=false p. 73 Prologue to Jonas: https://books.google.ca/books?id=8qoMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA163&dq=william+tyndale+obedien ce+of+a+christian+man&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_8avm0_nJAhXCrD4KHZjxApYQ6AE IPDAE#v=onepage&q=william%20tyndale%20obedience%20of%20a%20christian%20man&f= false p. 54 Obedience: https://books.google.ca/books?id=8qoMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA163&dq=william+tyndale+obedien ce+of+a+christian+man&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_8avm0_nJAhXCrD4KHZjxApYQ6AE IPDAE#v=onepage&q=william%20tyndale%20obedience%20of%20a%20christian%20man&f= false p. 164. Week 3 – Cranmer and the BCP Preface/Prologue to the Great Bible: https://books.google.ca/books?id=bA7FuFvmMLwC&pg=PA392&lpg=PA392&dq=cranmer+pr
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